Now You Can Actually Buy a Guaranteed Rain-Free Wedding

Using the technology Kate and Will did for their big day.

Back in 2011 when Kate Middleton and Prince William got married, the two were blessed with not a single drop of rain on their wedding day. Turns out this wasn't because of Mother Nature, but technology that you can now buy, The Telegraph reports.

Luxury travel company Oliver's Travels says it can rain-proof your wedding by cloud-seeding the sky, a method that was developed in the 1940s by chemist Vincent Schaefer. With wedding planning before, "one thing always bugged us," the company says on its site, "We can help plan everything down to the last detail, but there was one thing we could never really change: the weather. So we decided to do something about that."

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Enter Oliver's Travels' "exclusive cloud-bursting service." The company enlists a "crack" team of meteorologists and pilots who plan the three-week operation. They fly and drop silver iodide near your venue that the cloud's water vapor will condense around. The cloud produces rain and then dissipates after, leaving your venue's skies clear.

Costs start at a cool £100,000 ($151,972), "but then this is some superhero-style weather modification we've got going on here—and why price perfection?"

The company maintains cloud seeding is not bad for the environment, and that save for a hurricane or natural disaster, it's fail-proof. There's one caveat though: Right now, you can only use the service for a destination wedding at one of their very fancy chateaus in France. A minor detail, surely, to get the company's guarantee that "the only cloud at your wedding will be Cloud Nine."